Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial

Kiyokazu Yamanaka

Kazuo Okamura

Junichi Hirai

Hidekazu Tanigawa

Chihiro Kawahara

Masayuki Kozuka

Toshiya Mori

Masahiro Oashi

Naoya Takao

Takashi Kakiuchi

Yoshihiro Mimura

Tatsuya Shimoji

Yoshiyuki Miyabe

Yuki Kusumi

Ikuo Minakata

Shigeaki Watanabe

Hisayuki Kino

Kazutoshi Sumiya

Norio Sanada

Hirohisa Tanaka

Yoshio Nakano

Toshiyuki Sakata

Hidekazu Shimizu

Seiichi Urushibara

Hideyuki Ninomiya

Hidekaau Tanigawa

Chihiro Imagawa

A data processing apparatus according to the present invention is capable of writing video and/or audio data to a storage medium. The data processing apparatus includes: a power controller for controlling powering on or off; a signal processing circuit for generating data; and a drive section for writing the generated data to the storage medium. In response to a powering-off instruction, the power controller stops supplying power to the drive section but continues to supply power to the signal processing circuit and the power controller itself. Since hardware elements remain energized, they do not need to perform initialization operations when the apparatus is powered on. Similarly, corresponding software elements are also in an operable state, and therefore do not need to perform initialization processes. Therefore, the signal processing circuit can immediately start processing thereafter.

Power control for fast initialization of recording apparatus

A data conversion apparatus is provided as a data transmitting apparatus in a data communication system which achieves pseudo interactive communications by using one-way communications between the data transmitting apparatus and a plurality of data receiving apparatuses. The data conversion apparatus converts documents stored inside into images to be displayed on the screen, such as a TV screen. In doing so, if the document includes character strings or image information as link destination information which specifies another document as a link destination, the data conversion apparatus adds a supplementary design into the image of the link destination information for the viewer to recognize such information.

Data conversion apparatus for data communication system

A focus control device that positions a focus on one of a plurality of graphical user interface (GUI) components displayed on a screen includes request receiving means for receiving a request to move the focus, focus permission information storing means for storing focus permission information indicating, for each GUI component, whether the focus can be positioned on the GUI component, and focus moving means for moving the focus in response to the received request to a GUI component where, according to the focus permission information, the focus can be positioned, the focus moving means skipping over GUI components where the focus cannot be positioned.

Focus control device that moves a focus in a GUI screen

A data processing apparatus which displays a set of document data on a display unit together with an operation menu which has operation items related to the set of document data. In the apparatus, the document data storage unit stores a plurality of sets of document data of different contents which are indicated by sets of content information. The operation menu information storage unit stores a plurality of sets of operation menu information which each contain operation items that correspond to a content of document data. The first indication operation unit indicates a display of a set of document data. The second indication operation unit indicates an addition of a display of an operation menu to a display of document data. The operation menu generation unit receives an indication from the second indication operation unit, obtains the content information of the displayed data from the document data storage unit, extracts a corresponding set of operation menu information from the operation menu information storage unit, and generates an operation menu with the extracted operation items as menu items. The display control unit reads a set of document data from the document data storage unit, has the data displayed on the display unit in accordance with an indication from the first indication operation unit, and has the operation menu generated by the operation menu generation unit displayed in a window provided on the display unit.

Data processing apparatus for facilitating data selection and data processing

A layout unit refers to a plurality of menu items stored in a menu item information storage unit by a menu item information obtaining unit. The following processes are performed as necessary to display a large number of menu items in a predetermined part of a GUI screen. A character size reducing unit reduces the size of characters used to display menu items. A margin reducing unit determines the layout of menu items so as to reduce the margins in menu items. An abbreviating unit replaces certain character strings in menu items with shorter character strings. In this way, the layout unit determines the layout of menu items. A menu control unit then has the menu items displayed in accordance with the layout determined by the layout unit.

Graphical user interface apparatus with improved layout of menu items

Data processing apparatus for facilitating data selection and data processing in at television environment with reusable menu structures

A broadcast reception apparatus is provided with a reception unit for receiving broadcast data as a transport stream. The transport stream includes video data and a plurality of navigation information sequences. Each navigation information sequence includes navigation information which includes graphics data to be combined with the video data for display. A TS (Transport Stream) decoder unit extracts the video data and navigation information from the transport stream. A reception control unit controls the TS decoder unit so that the TS decoder unit extracts navigation information from a navigation information sequence which is suitable for the the broadcast reception apparatus. A navigation information storage unit stores the navigation information extracted by the TS decoder unit. A reproduction control unit combines graphics data included in the navigation information stored in the navigation information storage unit with the video data extracted by the TS decoder unit and displays a composite image of this combination. This achieves a broadcast reception apparatus which selectively uses necessary pieces of navigation information to display an image as a user interface.

Broadcast receiver selectively using navigation information multiplexed on transport stream and recording medium recording the method of the same

A program conversion device includes a formal initialization expression generating unit, an actual initialization expression generating unit, and an object generation statement translating unit. The formal initialization expression generating unit focuses on a definition of an object generation function written in a source program and generates, if the object generation function does not perform any processing other than setting values in member variables of an object, a formal initialization expression which is the member variables represented by formal parameters. The actual initialization expression generating unit focuses on an object generation statement and generates, if a formal initialization expression that corresponds to an object generation function to be invoked by the object generation statement has been generated, an actual initialization expression. If the generated actual initialization expression is member variables represented by constants, the object generation statement translating unit translates the object generation statement in focus not into a subroutine call code sequence to invoke the corresponding object generation function, but into object data that has the constants of the actual initialization expression.

Program conversion device for translating an object-oriented language source program

A data display control apparatus receives a digital broadcast and compares the present time with a time indicated in a Time_Event_Part provided in navigation information used to control the display of the multimedia data composing a broadcast program. When the indicated time has been reached, the data display control apparatus executes instructions to control the display of the multimedia data.

Data display control apparatus

A data conversion apparatus is provided for reading a document for a display screen and generating a display image for another display screen which has a different aspect ratio from the former display screen, where the document is composed of control statements written along with character strings or image information. The data conversion apparatus obtains the document from an external unit and converts the character strings and the image information in the document into display image elements based on conversion information. The data conversion apparatus judges whether a storage includes a blank for storing the display image elements at an appropriate position based on the conversion information. The data conversion apparatus writes the display image elements into the blank if it judges that the storing unit includes the blank; the data conversion apparatus assigns a new storage area in the storage and writes the display image elements into the new storage area if it judges that the storing unit does not include the blank.

Data conversion apparatus for reading a document for a display screen

A menu display device for indicating a relationship between a series of linked menu items that are listed in separate menus and displayed sequentially on a display screen to be selected by a cursor is disclosed. The plurality of menus are appropriately stored, and each menu item has a design for identifying their respective menu items. The menu items are connected so as to form a linked structure of the menus, and the linkage is also stored. A menu item display control unit is provided for retrieving the next menu, which is related to a selected menu item and for having that retrieved menu displayed by the display screen. A marker design generation unit can generate a new design, which includes at least a portion of the design for the menu item that was selected in the previous menu to thereby indicate, by the appearance of the cursor, a path through the linked menus.

Menu display device

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Kiyokazu Yamanaka